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Labor Day weekend is also one of the holiday festivals in Iceland. “Samuel Gompers” is the president and the founder of the American federation of labor. Icelanders celebrated Labor Day first time on May 1, 1923. Workers utilize this day for demonstrations by sporting red flags as how to improve wages and their present working condition. Labor Day weekend is very much different from the other Iceland's holiday as all holidays are somewhat connected to conflicts and battles between men and victory achieved by one nation over other. But Labor Day weekend is related to a single individual itself and is devoted to no man living or dead, race or any caste or creed. Verslunnarmannahelgi Weekend (First weekend in August) is the colloquial term for the Labor Day weekend in Iceland.
Labor Day weekend takes place throughout the country on the first weekend of August and it has its unique way of celebration. Normally, urban folks go to the country side and they set up camps and spend the rest of holiday partying and drinking in groups. Visit the country on this weekend and you will find no place empty with this kind of groups enjoying themselves to the maximum .In Reykjavik bars and restaurants are also over whelming with liquors on Labor Day weekend. A huge concert also takes place in Western islands on Labor Day weekend
In festive point of view Labor Day weekend is generally a festival for teenagers who enjoys the day on the camp side partying and drinking. In the western Islands, a similar festival is held in this same day and is also celebrated in the same way but it normally portrays Iceland’s partial achievement in political autonomy in 1874.
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